List of changes (version 9.0 - 9.0a)

List of changes (version 9.0 - 9.0a) is a list of changes to Total Commander since version 9.0 until the release of version 9.0a. The list starts at the latest change and goes back in time.

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List of changes (version 9.0 - 9.0a)

(14.12.16) Release Total Commander 9.0a final (32/64)

• (14.12.16) Fixed: Mapped USB drives or network drives added after starting TC would show up with internal icon/as disconnected when using Explorer icons and no drive buttonbar (32/64)
• (13.12.16) Fixed: Network Neighborhood: Entries which appeared with a delay were sometimes shown as files, not folders (32/64)
• (13.12.16) Fixed: Standalone install64.exe ignored UserName= line in install.inf when auto-installing. Furthermore, the line userforicons= was unused (64)
• (13.12.16) Fixed: Clear pending numeric coprocessor exceptions also before dispatching Windows messages to reduce problems with C/C++ plugins and extensions (32)
• (12.12.16) Fixed: Unpack files with forbidden characters ?*|<> also from 7zip and rar archives, partial support for packer plugins too (32/64)
• (12.12.16) Fixed: Disabled the fix "Support invalid ZIP archives with UTF-8-encoded names but missing UTF-8 flag (created by Dropbox)" on systems with double byte charsets like Chinese, because some valid Chinese double byte characters would be detected as UTF-8 (32/64)
• (11.12.16) Fixed: Alt+F5 re-pack files from within an archive, no target path given (e.g. rar:newfile.rar) -> archive was created in TEMP dir, need to insert current directory (32/64)
• (11.12.16) Fixed: Lister (F3): Search for regular expressions in UTF-8 and UTF-16 modes didn't handle backslashes correctly, had to enter \\\ instead of \\ to find a single backslash (32/64)
• (11.12.16) Fixed: Auto switch mode: sort order was lost when restarting TC while in an archive, and view mode of parent directory had sort order set to "unchanged" (32/64)
• (11.12.16) Fixed: Reduced flickering when pressing ESC while not in command line (32/64)
• (11.12.16) Fixed: Quick filter: Filter icon was drawn 1 pixel too high, separator line was overdrawn (32/64)
• (11.12.16) Fixed: Brief view, select all, select nothing, select all -> total number of files was no longer shown in footer (32/64)
• (08.12.16) Fixed: In rare cases, TC may start with empty file panels. To fix, add to wincmd.ini [Configuration] FixEmptyPanel=1 (32/64)

(08.12.16) Release Total Commander 9.0a release candidate 3 (32/64)

• (08.12.16) Fixed: Dimmed icons (for hidden files) were drawn incorrectly on Windows 2000 and older if the background color wasn't white (32)
• (08.12.16) Fixed: Lister, html view: <META content="text/html; charset=utf-8; encoding=utf-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"> was not recognized as UTF-8 encoding header (32/64)
• (08.12.16) Fixed: Search function: When saving search and overwriting an existing search with different upper-/lowercase characters, there was a (correct) overwrite warning, but the search appeared twice in the list (64)
• (08.12.16) Fixed: When preloading icons from system image list, draw the icon already in the background thread (hidden), because the icon seems to be loaded only when drawn (32/64)
• (07.12.16) Fixed: F6 move: Skipping empty dirs by appending |**\ to second input line didn't work when moving within the same drive (32/64)
• (07.12.16) Fixed: Hide "Themed cursor" checkbox in configuration dialog on systems older than Windows XP (32/64)
• (07.12.16) Fixed: Separate quick view window was closed when choosing directory from directory hotlist or history in other panel (32/64)
• (07.12.16) Fixed: Drag&Drop to other file panel not possible while separate quick view window was shown (32/64)
• (07.12.16) Fixed: Alt+F5 pack dialog was shown on wrong (primary) screen when the last used packer was a plugin (caused by focus change) (64)
• (07.12.16) Fixed: Content plugin field selection dialog: extra text (x.xx) after size field units wasn't removed when adding a field (64)
• (06.12.16) Added: wincmd.ini [Configuration] SkippedFileCopy=100 or more: Option to set a different delay (in ms) at start of a file operation during which a user can be asked whether he wants to overwrite a file (32/64)
• (06.12.16) Fixed: Delay-load Windows drive icons when not using the drive buttonbar. Disable via wincmd.ini [Configuration] LoadDriveIconsInBackground=0 (32/64)
• (06.12.16) Fixed: Internal command SELECTFILES (and also SELECTFILESB, SELECTFILESD etc.) didn't work with saved selections in the form >Saved_selection any more (32/64)

(05.12.16) Release Total Commander 9.0a release candidate 2 (32/64)

• (05.12.16) Fixed: Multi-rename tool retried with 10000 different target names if the source file was locked by another app, slowing down the rename function (32/64)
• (05.12.16) Fixed: Lister, search function: Allow to search for OEM-specific characters like the line drawing characters in OEM/DOS mode (32/64)
• (05.12.16) Fixed: Internal associations could not longer be defined for *.url files (32/64)
• (05.12.16) Fixed: Configuration - button bar: Upper preview window (entire bar) didn't show icon if the icon file name was given in double quotes (32/64)
• (05.12.16) Added: Content plugins: "size" field now supports 4 additional types: bkMGT, bkMGT2, bkMG3, bkMGT3: T is with Terabytes, 3 is 2 digits after the decimal point (and at least 1 before it) (32/64)
• (04.12.16) Fixed: Content plugin field selection dialog: Right click on plugin field - "Copy to clipboard" was not working (32/64)
• (04.12.16) Fixed: Brief view: Extension could switch from aligned to attached to file name when making window smaller (32/64)
• (04.12.16) Fixed: Quick search filter was lost when deleting files from archive (32/64)
• (04.12.16) Fixed: Faster loading of directories (especially on network shares) with option "Overlay icons" enabled, by moving the name parsing to the background thread (32/64)
• (04.12.16) Fixed: Lister: could not copy OEM text to clipboard in binary and hex mode, it was copied as ANSI text (32/64)
• (04.12.16) Fixed: Hex search in Lister not always working with OEM font set, and "Respect case" not checked (32/64)
• (03.12.16) Added: The replacement of the Photos app with Windows Photo Viewer (desktop program) can now be disabled in Files - Associate With..., the option is only shown for affected extensions like jpg (32/64)
• (02.12.16) Fixed: Search with 'Everything': Detect versions older than 1.3 and warn user that version 1.3 or newer is needed (32/64)
• (02.12.16) Fixed: Dialog box for choosing the default icon library: Automatically check second radio button (lower icon lib) when user chooses library from dropdown combobox (32/64)
• (02.12.16) Fixed: Dialog box "Drive not found" was using a very small font size on high DPI devices (32/64)
• (02.12.16) Fixed: Trying to drag files from Windows\Fonts to other program made TC unresponsive to mouse clicks; the actual drag problem cannot be fixed because Fonts stores the files for a virtual folder (64)
• (02.12.16) Fixed: Do not remember position of separator between the two file panels when closing separate quick view window (32/64)
• (02.12.16) Added: wincmd.ini, UseEverythingInstance option now supports environment variables (32/64)
• (02.12.16) Fixed: Classic theme: Multi-rename tool buttons "+" and "#" did not show cyrillic characters, just ???? (64)
• (02.12.16) Fixed: FTP connection on tab: When drive letters are shown on the tab, change # to connection number when the connection on that tab is established (32/64)
• (02.12.16) Fixed: FTP connection on locked tab (with dir changes allowed) not working: Couldn't switch to that tab with mouse click, click on "\" didn't go to locked dir, restarting TC with that tab in foreground changed title. Note: after restarting, click on tab title to reconnect (32/64)
• (01.12.16) Fixed: Reload shield overlay icon when user changes icon size in file list (32/64)

(30.11.16) Release Total Commander 9.0a release candidate 1 (32/64)

• (30.11.16) Fixed: Left side in archive, rename that archive in other panel -> returned to directory of the archive, but the auto switch mode rules were not applied (32/64)
• (30.11.16) Fixed: Some overlays (e.g. on default folder icons) could be drawn twice (32/64)
• (30.11.16) Fixed: Shield overlay icon was pixelated in thumbnails view if it was loaded while in normal view (32/64)
• (30.11.16) Added: Name of icon library for cached button bar is now stored in separate section [ButtonbarCache] instead of [Buttonbar] (but it's read from both) (32/64)
• (30.11.16) Fixed: Language in TC could partially switch back to English when moving multiple file operations to the background (running there at the same time) (32/64)
• (30.11.16) Fixed: Themed caret (cursor in listboxes) was not disabled by default if WindowBlinds is running in x64 only because the module name is wblind64 not wblind (64)
• (29.11.16) Fixed: FTP connection, search, feed to listbox, connection lost, user denies to reconnect -> sometimes the text "Search result" remained on tab (32/64)
• (29.11.16) Fixed: FTP connection, connection lost, user denies to reconnect -> view mode was not applied to local directory (32/64)
• (29.11.16) Fixed: Configuration - Options - Auto switch mode: Crash trying to load a rule with more than 50 sub-rules (created manually). also increased maximum to 100 (32/64)
• (29.11.16) Added: Search function: Use prefix ed: instead of ev: for unfiltered Everything search in the location(s) given by "Search in" field. Also supports the "limit depth" option (32/64)
• (29.11.16) Fixed: Lister: Position at start differed by 1 pixel from previously saved position (32/64)
• (28.11.16) Fixed: Could no longer open archives without extension with Enter (only with Ctrl+PageDown) (32/64)
• (28.11.16) Fixed: Could not load saved synchronize dirs option with files from list file if there were previous selections (32/64)
• (27.11.16) Added: Everything: Support named instances (Everything.exe -instance "somename"): wincmd.ini [Configuration] UseEverythingInstance=somename (32/64)
• (27.11.16) Fixed: Could not use 7zip plugin (e.g. Total7zip) in synchronize dirs with self-extracting .exe files, TC always used internal 7zip (32/64)
• (27.11.16) Fixed: F3 on large directory (e.g. Windows) -> counting directory size couldn't be aborted by closing Lister with X button, only with ESC (32/64)
• (27.11.16) Fixed: Do not open associated files with Ctrl+PageDown if "Treat archives like directories" is disabled (32/64)
• (27.11.16) Fixed: Commands - Target=Source didn't apply Auto Switch Mode rules to the target panel (32/64)
• (27.11.16) Fixed: FTP, search function: File sizes >2GB would not be handled correctly (32/64)
• (27.11.16) Fixed: Main menu: Submenu indicator (black triangle) could overlay menu text on high dpi screens (32/64)
• (27.11.16) Fixed: Windows classic theme: Reduce flickering of status bar (footer) by not updating it when the content stays the same, e.g. when clicking on a different file in full mode (32/64)
• (25.11.16) Fixed: Network Neighborhood: Sometimes servers which should appear there are shown in a file system plugin which is opened from there (although the function is disabled when leaving Network Neighborhood) (32/64)